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Men's skin is different from women's skin.  It is usually bigger, and
it has more snakes tattooed on it.  Also, if you examine a woman's skin
very closely, inch by inch, starting at her shapely ankles, then gently
tracing the slender curve of her calves, then moving up to her ...
        [EDITOR'S NOTE: To make room for news articles about important
         world events such as agriculture, we're going to delete the
         next few square feet of the woman's skin.  Thank you.]
... until finally the two of you are lying there, spent, smoking your
cigarettes, and suddenly it hits you: Human skin is actually made up of
billions of tiny units of protoplasm, called "cells"!  And what is even
more interesting, the ones on the outside are all dying!  This is a
fact.  Your skin is like an aggressive modern corporation, where the
older veteran cells, who have finally worked their way to the top and
obtained offices with nice views, are constantly being shoved out the
window head first, without so much as a pension plan, by younger
hotshot cells moving up from below.
                -- Dave Barry, "Saving Face"

Menu, n.:
        A list of dishes which the restaurant has just run out of.

Meskimen's Law:
        There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to
do it over.

MESSAGE ACKNOWLEDGED -- The Pershing II missiles have been launched.

Message will arrive in the mail.  Destroy, before the FBI sees it.

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glutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine, n.:
        The chemical name for tryptophan synthetase A protein, a
        1,913-letter enzyme with 267 amino acids.
                -- Mrs. Bryne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and

Mickey Mouse wears a Spiro Agnew watch.

Micro Credo:
        Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift.

"Microwave oven?  Whaddya mean, it's a microwave oven?  I've been
watching Channel 4 on the thing for two weeks."

"Might as well be frank, monsieur.  It would take a miracle to get you
out of Casablanca and the Germans have outlawed miracles."